Arthur purchased 8 pounds of cane sugar for $40 to use in his restaurant for desserts. What is the constant of proportionality that relates the cost of cane sugar, y, and the amount of cane sugar in pounds, x?

Fanny mendelssohn manages all the magazines and paperback books at a local grocery store. she prices many paperbacks to sell at $7.99. the cost to the store is $5.29. what is the markup rate on a paperback book, based on its cost?

The krasnapolski is a top-of-the-line hotel in amsterdam, the netherlands. among their many services, they rent bicycles to guests. the bicycle checkout is open 24 hours per day 7 days per week and has 50 bicycles on hand. on average, 10 guests request a bicycle each day, arriving completely randomly at all times of the day during the spring and summer seasons. guests keep bicycles for four days on average, with a standard deviation of two days. how long does a guest on average have to wait for a bike? a. approximately 24 hours b. approximately 0.033 hours c. approximately 4 days d. approximately 47 minutes

If a and −a are numbers on the number line, which expression must give the distance between them? a) 0 b) a c) |2a| d) |a|